The Gentleman from Tralfamadore Summary

Titan is one of the nine moons of Saturn, and the only moon in the solar system with a breathable oxygen atmosphere. It stays at a constant sixty-seven degree temperature. It is covered with three large seas and many smaller lakes and ponds, all connected by rivers. There are forests and plants.

Rumfoord's waves of materializations coincide with the orbit of Titan around Saturn and the orbit of Saturn around the Sun, so that he and Kazak are permanently materialized on Titan. They live there on an island near the shore of one of the seas, in a house that is a replica of the Taj Mahal.

Before Beatrice, Constant, and Chrono arrive, there is only one other person on Titan, the eleven-million-year-old Salo from the planet Tralfamadore. Salo is orange, with three legs, and stands four...